Week 1: Summary

What did I learn?

This was the first class week I had, during this week. Fortunately, I have learned very much, I started studying how to recognize a web page with the help of the web site the teacher provided me, I used that page to have a guide of how to analyse a web page, if it is reliable with updated information or to recognize a web page owner: if it is from a person, company or organization. These methods to identify the content of the web page are really useful for students because I can also notice if the web page provides me some other links that will help me to expand my search, or if its information is only plagiarizsm from other web sites. Finally, now I can know what is the web page purpose and if it has serious scientific or superficial  information to trust the page or to look for a better one.

How did I learn?

The way I learned it was by researching on a web page that really helped me to understand how web pages work, there were also some words related with internet that I did not understand but there was a dictionary that I read to understand some terms that I have never heard. I learned by using the steps from the Evaluating Web Sites resources document I had to complete with my partner, so it was researching on it anbd following the steps. A really useful method I learned to identify the owner of the site was using the "Truncate back the URL", it tought me to look for the administrator's name of the web page and to look his profile and background to check if his information posted on his web page is reliable and professional, but if there was not his profile I learned from the teacher that we only have to lookf for it on the internet. Basically, the effective way I learned it was applying the information I read from the document and applying it one by one with the teacher's help and guide.

How am I going to apply it?

I think I will apply it when I have to look for written information  from a reliable and professional person that have a big and clear knowledge able to share his scientific information about something with others. Also to use it in scholar tasks or to learn more about some topic from a good source I can rely on. All this knowledge I acquired will help me for my future to improve myself using technology to be better in my professional field or to help other to find: good, effective and useful information.